My, how things have moved on!

Found these Fantastic 60s recipe cards by the original celeb chef Robert Carrier, while on holiday last month in a cottage in North Wales.

The recipes range from the classic to the exotic to the absolutely bizzare! I also photographed some of the recipes close up, so if you fancy spoiling your guests, why not try cooking Egg & Anchovy Barrels, followed by a Fish Turban with Scallops, with a grande finale of Rice a la Royale.

More to follow soon.

Enjoy!

Latest Crop: Lettuce, Broccoli, Sage & Eggs.

If, like us, you get a bit TOO excited each week when your Veggie box gets delivered, you'll understand how an organic leafy broccoli and a curled up little lettuce got me running for the camera a few weeks back.

Here's a selection from our most recent batch of images, shot in natural light, including a before & after shot of some lettuce leaves, showing the mess and clutter that gets lovingly photoshopped away to give you a nice clean foodonwhite image.

New Contact Food Photographers book...

The latest Contact Food Photographers book is due out in the next couple of weeks, but in case you just can't wait any longer, here it is online...
http://www.contactebooks.com/food14/
...enjoy!
ps. See our page in the Image Libraries section at the back.

digital food fight

Having re-discovered google fight and having just photographed, re-touched and uploaded some new fruit images it got us wondering who would be the 'fruit of all fruits' in a digital food fight... so we lined up the following 8 juicy contestants: pineapples, strawberries, kiwi, bananas, grapes, apples oranges and lemons which would be the most searched for fruit, across the world right now..?
Unsurprisingly pineapples [16400000] lost to strawberries [37500000] whilst bananas [49100000] overcame kiwis [18200000] next was apples [33400000] crushing grapes [16100000] and finally the arch rivals lemons [7350000] being easily beaten by oranges [12300000] - just to complete citrus wars, limes [1190000] just beat grapefruits [1070000]

So the final line-up starting with most popular: bananas, strawberries, apples, kiwi, oranges, pineapple, grapes and lemons. Draw your own conclusions as to why bananas reign supreme.

Books For Cooks

Books For Cooks in Londons Blenheim Crescent is a smallish shop crammed from floor to ceiling with cookery books on every conceivable food subject. Food books demand browsing and books for cooks encourage this. Another advantage is the owners knowledge of cookery publishing and what is in print or out of print. We have been visiting the shop from it’s early days in 1985 until today and it never ceases to inspire & intrigue. Like many restaurants they also have a test kitchen with a program of cookery classes – I guess it’s a sign of the times that the extra revenue helps the shop survive ...

Whilst in this part of West London it’s a short walk to Rough Trade to check out the latest indie record releases…another highly recommended shop

the foodonwhite blog...

Welcome to the new blog from foodonwhite, a place for us to keep you updated on our latest shoots, provide recipes and other foodie facts, share with you whatever inspires us (be it photography, design, cook books, our latest favorite food finds etc), get all techy & nerdy about techniches & equipment or just let you know what's on our minds.

If you don't already know what we do well the name pretty much sums it up - we are a new online photolibrary selling a unique, steadily growing collection of food ingredient images on pure white backgrounds, retouched and ready to drop straight into design layouts.

Check out the website and let us know what you think.